Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Daniel <dragonheart@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] some uClibc experience
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:39:24
Message-Id: 200311131006.00095.dragonheart@tpg.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] some uClibc experience by Ned Ludd
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6 > Please take a look at the 0.9.22 ebuild in portage. The wrappers for
7 > gcc,c++,ld,ldd,ar,etc are all missing and I don't know why. I've checked
8 > the detail/changelogs on the uclibc.org site and see no mention of this
9 > what so ever.
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12 There is a mention of this in the email list.
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16 > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:55:53AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
17 > > There comes a time when 90% of correct is not enough. uClibc has
18 > > progressed enough that people had begin running into the wrapper
19 > > limitations quite regularly. It seemed better to just kill off
20 > > the wrapper and encourage people to use properly built
21 > > toolchains.
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23 The current ebuild I'm working on now uses the toolchain. ([Bug 29312])
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25 > > This is the path I go too, if
26 > > uClibc becomes binary incompatible. I build first the target development
27 > > environment, then chroot into it and rebuild rpm, after that rebuilding
28 > > all other packages.
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31 uClibc I believe is not guaranteed to be binary compatible until version 1.0
32 having said that versions 0.9.21 and 0.9.22 are (according to Erik's release
33 notice).
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36 > > 4. My preference would be to replace sysvinit stuff (I think included in
37 > > baselayout) with some other init (runit, minit, simpleinit, twsinit) to
38 > > have better dependency handling in the startup scripts, also allowing
39 > > parallel startup of services.
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41 Depending on the application even an init system may be too much. An embedded
42 firewall for example needs to run only a few application.
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44 > We can more or less dump all of the baselayout and or repackage it or
45 > make an e-baselayout.
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47 Sounds good.
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50 Daniel Black
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